Readings on Covid-19
Williams College Economics Department
Data sources
Data
FRED dashboards: “COVID-19 Economic Data Tracking,” and “COVID-19 Financial Data Tracking.”
The Chetty et al. "big data" Covid-19 tracker.
NYT Coronavirus case dataset: article, database on Github.
Data on restaurant reservations from OpenTable.
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard.
The COVID tracking project. One-stop-shop for data on deaths, cases, etc. Includes links to blogs and articles from the press.
Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey, and Small Business Pulse Survey.
Research papers
The NBER has come out with so many Covid-19 related working paper in such a short period of time, I've given up on listing each one. Instead, here is a link to the page on the NBER website with links to all the research.
SSRN has a good Covid-19 page, with good links to other resources.
A 200-page CEPR compendium on various aspects of the pandemic.
FRBSF working paper on the long-run impact of pandemics, compared with wars.
St Louis Fed working paper, using a DSGE model in which the pandemic is modeled as a "large negative shock to the utility of consumption of contact-intensive services." (!)
Board of Governors paper on the effects of the 1918 pandemic, looking across cities at the effects of "non-pharmaceutical intervention."
This paper uses computational linguistics to figure out which firms will be hardest hit.
This paper from the U of Chicago looks at the characteristics of workers who are more/less likely to be affected by social distancing, etc.
Misinformation During a Pandemic. Sean Hannity = "treatment" and Tucker Carlson = "control"!
Sorting out the causes of the contraction, using cell phone foot traffic data from Safegraph.
This just in: estimates from Bernheim et al. on the number of cases and deaths resulting from Trump rallies.
Blogs and sites
VoxEU.org
Collection of posts on the topic
Vox.com
A big collection of articles/posts on Covid-19.
Breugel
Is Covid-19 Triggering a New Emerging Market Crisis? If you scroll down, you'll find lots of links to other Breugel posts on the topic.
Project Syndicate
An entire section devoted to the Covid-19 crisis.
Econofact
An extensive series of posts on the topic.
The Long Run (EHS blog)
Science
General interest articles from a "science" (as opposed to economic) perspective naturally.
Project Syndicate
International Monetary Fund
Coronavirus Economic Planning: Hoping for the Best, Prepared for the Worst
Monetary and Financial Stability During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Limiting the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus with Large Targeted Policies
Fiscal Policies to Protect People During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Potential Impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic: What We Know and What We Can Do
Non-technical articles and essays
A slideshow (92 slides!) from the London Business School on the economic impacts.
Short article on some financial implications: “COVID-19’s Shock on Firms’ Liquidity…,”
Ahead-of-its-time article from 2008: “Pandemic Economics…”
An incredibly prescient (pre-Coronavirus) report prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers in September 2019 - ignored by the administration and the acting chair of the CEA.
Non-academic and popular press
The Atlantic has a good compilation of Covid-19 related articles.
"How economists are trying to answer coronavirus questions" (NYT)
Other resources
Virtual Macro seminar series (with many recent papers on the pandemic).
Bendheim Center for Finance (Princeton), The Economic Implications of Covid-19 webinar series.
Australian National University (ANU) has an extensive collection of research papers on macroeconomic aspects.
The World Bank's Covid-19 webinar series, focusing issues relating to development economics.
The St. Louis Fed has a great website with Covid-19 related links.
And so does the Board of Governors, with a good chronology of the Fed's various policy actions.
Economics in the Age of Covid-19, a book manuscript (already!?) by Joshua Gans. Rather superficial, IMO.
Feel free to email me with suggestions: knk1 "at" williams.edu